ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,497,860, issued on Dec. 16.
"Inflow control system for a borehole, and method" was invented by Guijun Deng (The Woodlands, Texas), Sandip Maity (Juffair, Bahrain), Oscar Becerra Moreno (Katy, Texas), Vimal Shah (Sugar Land, Texas), Anil Sadana (Houston) and Zhihui Zhang (Katy, Texas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An inflow control system for a borehole, including a plurality of electrically controlled inflow control devices (ICDs), a plurality of power sources, at least one source being connected to one of the ICDs and also being connectable to another of the ICDs, and a downhole controller operably connected to the ICDs and to the power...